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Memory, Monuments

from Part III - Women Writers In-Between: Socialist, Modern, Developmentalists, and Liberal Democratic Ideals

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2015

Michael J. Lazzara

Edited by

Ileana Rodríguez and

Mónica Szurmuk

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Ileana Rodríguez: Affiliation:
Ohio State University
Mónica Szurmuk: Affiliation:
Instituto de Literatura Hispanoamericana, Argentina

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This chapter begins with the female body and "feminine" writing as a locus of rebellion in the 1980s. It discusses the reflections on trauma and defeat the emerged after the dictatorships, the historical revision of the revolutionary endeavor that took place in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The chapter describes the postmemory reflections of the "children of dictatorship", a narrative mode characteristic of memory's turn in the new millennium. In each successive moment, the tenor of memory's performance changes. Particularly in the 1980s, under the rigid surveillance of dictatorship, the body became a metaphorical ground zero from which to decolonize hegemonic discursive constructions. The Latin American dictatorships that spanned the latter half of the twentieth century sought to destroy not only leftist political projects, but also the subjectivities and life-worlds linked to those projects.

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Latin American Women's Writing Latin American migrations exiled women Southern Cone countries Spanish-Speaking Caribbean

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Information: The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature , pp. 448 - 464

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHO9781316050859.031 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2015

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